Let's Go Play at the Adams'

by Mendal W. Johnson

He was obviously a creature in torment caused—again—by trying to translate back and forth between the world he found himself to live in externally and the one within that was visible only to him.

You make yourself be nice, and you think that if you keep on being that way and don’t do anything to the world, it won’t do anything to you.”

“You turn everybody into little Disney puppy dogs and pussy cats. You like them for what you make them and not for what they are with warts on. You make everybody want to act out for you, and it isn’t comfortable.”

If somebody’s ticked off, they want to be taken the way they are—ticked off. They don’t want to have to play-pretend for you.”